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Greymouth Star
New Zealand
Monday, September 8, 2014 - 3
Pole crash fatal
One person is dead after a vehicle
crashed into a power pole in
Auckland this morning. Police said
the crash occurred in the Te Atatu
Peninsula at 6.15am. One person
died, and two others have been taken
to Auckland Hospital with serious
injuries. About 1400 people had
their power cut, but it was restored
to most after 8am. Yeovil Road in
the Te Atatu Peninsula was closed
to traffic, police said. Police will
investigate the cause of the crash.
— APNZ
Cyclist fighting for life
An elderly cyclist is fighting for
his life after a collision with a car in
Waihi on Saturday. A duty manager
at a nearby Countdown supermarket
gave the 77-year old man first aid
after the collision at 11am. The man
remained in a critical condition in
Waikato Hospital, a spokeswoman
said. A second person was was taken
to Thames Hospital with minor
injuries after the accident. — APNZ
Crash injures six
Two children remain in hospital
after a crash in Canterbury on
Saturday morning which injured six
people. A Christchurch Hospital
spokeswoman said four adults had
been discharged but two children
remained in a comfortable condition
in hospital following the crash
between a car and a van at an
intersection in Kaiapoi. — APNZ
Dead man named
Police have named an elderly man
who died when he was pinned by
his car in Tauranga. Alexander Lee
Peterson, 86, died when he was
pinned between his car and a garden
wall at his home on Thursday.
— APNZ
Lotto millionaire
A ticket, sold in Glenfield, won its
holder $1 million in division one of
Lotto draw No 1422 on Saturday.
Successful numbers were 3, 4, 14,
17, 35, 38; bonus 21. Strike numbers
were 38, 35, 14, 4. There were two
Strike Four winners, from Oamaru
and Auckland, each taking home
$600,000. Powerball number 1.
There was no division one winner.
The Winning Wheel ticket was sold
in Canterbury. The winner from
Auckland spun for $150,000.
Keno results
Numbers in Keno draw No 10180:
1,3,9,14,15,26,33,35,43,46,49,51,
54, 58, 59, 63, 65, 71, 75, 78. Draw No
10181: 4, 9, 11, 19, 24, 32, 33, 35, 37,
39, 46, 50, 55, 58, 61, 64, 66, 69, 77, 80.
Draw No 10182: 1, 6, 13, 16, 23, 26,
28, 29, 35, 43, 44, 51, 52, 59, 61, 63, 68,
69, 73, 77. Draw No 10183: 4, 9, 16,
18, 24, 27, 36, 39, 40, 43, 48, 49, 51, 53,
56, 61, 62, 71, 74, 75. Draw No 10184:
2,3,5,6,12,16,23,33,36,39,41,42,
50, 51, 52, 53, 58, 62, 69, 74. Draw No
10185: 4, 8, 10, 13, 14, 19, 22, 23, 29,
30, 34, 47, 55, 56, 62, 63, 69, 74, 75, 79.
Draw No 10186: 2, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 19,
27, 29, 33, 37, 38, 48, 49, 51, 52, 56, 68,
70, 72. Draw No 10187: 4, 5, 8, 15, 17,
20, 21, 23, 26, 29, 32, 38, 42, 44, 46, 50,
54, 60, 65, 72.
Auckland
New Zealanders are evenly
divided about whether farmers are
moving quickly enough to reduce
their impact on the environment, a
Herald-DigiPoll sur vey shows.
A narrow majority of 47% agreed
with the statement that farmers
were continually improving their
practices and were unfairly criticised
by environmentalists.
On the other hand, 39% of
respondents agreed that farmers
were moving too slowly to improve
their practices, and a further 7%
said they deser ved all the criticism
they received from environment
groups.
People outside of Auckland and
aged over 65 were more likely to
be supportive of farmers, while
Aucklanders and young and middle-
aged people were more likely to be
critical.
Federated
Farmers’
dairy
chairman Andrew Hoggard said the
environmental impact of farming
was an emotional issue and farmers
often felt that opposition was
over whelming.
“At times, I feel like it’s a hell of a
lot more than that who are negative
and it’s probably a pleasant surprise
that (nearly) 50% are actually happy
with the job they ’re doing.”
He said historically farmers had
been slow to introduce mitigation
measures, but 90% of dairy farms
had now fenced off their water ways
and 96% were complying with rules
on dairy effluent.
“ I think a number of those
environmental groups have got a bit
of a beef. What they need to realise
now is that most of this industry are
now invested in this space and do
want to improve. A pat on the back
wouldn’t go amiss.”
The environmental impact of dairy
farming is a key issue at this election.
National believes dairy can continue
to expand and environmental
impacts can be controlled by fencing
rivers and retiring farmland around
water ways.
It has outlined plans to buy up
farmland near the worst-polluted
rivers and ban dairy cows from
water ways.
Last year, National introduced
environmental bottom lines for
rivers and streams which required all
councils to ensure rivers and streams
were, at a minimum, clean enough
for boating or wading.
Labour and Greens believe all
New Zealand rivers should be clean
enough to swim in, not just clean
enough to “dip your toe in”.
They believe environmental
damage cannot be limited unless
land intensification is controlled,
and both parties support a tax on
freshwater to encourage farmers to
use natural resources more efficiently.
National does not want to consider
an irrigation tax out of concern
it would unfairly penalise New
Zealand’s biggest exporter.
Conservation group Forest
and Bird said yesterday that the
quality of New Zealand’s lakes and
rivers was voters’ top conser vation
priority at this election. Spokesman
Kevin Hackwell said: “Of all New
Zealand’s conservation issues, it ’s
the freshwater situation that has
seen the fastest decline of in recent
decades.
“ New Zealanders are concerned
that the $400 million in handouts for
irrigation schemes is likely to lead to
even higher levels of intensification
—
and even more damage being
done to our water ways. ”
— APNZ-New Zealand Herald
Dairy farming impact key election issue
Wellington
Police have been ordered to release back
to Kim Dotcom clones of computers and
electronic devices seized in 2012 from his
Coatesville mansion under FBI orders.
The Court of Appeal ruled in February
this year that search warrants of Dotcom’s
multi-million-dollar property, and the
home of his computer programmer Bram
van der Kolk, executed at the request of
the United States Department of Justice
which is seeking to extradite them on
on-line piracy charges, was legal.
But it found that the seizure of
electronic items including laptops,
computers, portable hard drives,
flash storage devices and ser vers, was
unauthorised.
It upheld a High Court declaration
that the decision to allow police to give
cloned copies of information har vested
from the devices to the FBI without
direction from the Solicitor-General was
not authorised and was unlawful.
Now, the Court of Appeal has ruled
that New Zealand Police “must as soon
as reasonably practicable” release clones
of any device back to Dotcom and his
co-accused.
The clones must also be free from
encrypted material, according to the
judgment released today. Dotcom, van
der Kolk and co-accused Finn Batato
and Mathias Ortmann are all defending
charges of mass copyright infringement,
on-line piracy, and money laundering
and are facing extradition proceedings
next February.
At a Court of Appeal hearing on August
14, the four accused raised concerns that
they have not yet been provided with
clones of all the electronic devices seized
from them by police on January 20, 2012.
Today ’s judgment says police must
release the clones immediately.
It adds that encryption codes may
only be provided to two nominated and
named New Zealand police officers who
must provide a written undertaking that
they will “maintain the confidentiality
of any and all encryption codes
provided to me; will not transmit the
encryption codes electronically; and
will not disclose the encryption codes
to any other person or any other party,
and in particular to any representative
of the Government of the United States
of America”.
The judgment also says that the clones
release can be done in tranches, if that
will speed the process up.
Either party can also apply to the Court
of Appeal at short notice if further orders
are necessary. — APNZ
Dotcom
has a win
Kim Dotcom
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Dunedin
A lawyer who prevented “Whale
Oil” from gagging traditional media
says he expects the controversial
blogger will soon enjoy the same legal
protection as journalists.
Julian Miles, QC, represented three
media organisations at a hearing
in the High Court at Auckland on
Friday and less than 24 hours later
spoke at the World Bar Conference
2014 in Queenstown.
Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater
had sought an injunction stopping
further publication of private e-mails
hacked from his computer.
The e-mails have caused a storm
of controversy during the last three
weeks, leading to the resignation of
Minister of Justice Judith Collins.
Mr Slater is also being sued by
Auckland businessman Matthew
Blomfield in a defamation case.
Mr Slater resisted handing over
information about sources by trying
to claim the same legal protections
as journalists — but a District Court
judge in December rejected the
position.
“ His Honour argued blogging
was not journalism and hence the
defendant, a well-known blogger
under the name of Whale Oil, had to
reveal his sources,” Mr Miles said in
his speech on Saturday.
“ Now in the High Court that ruling
was challenged — the judgment is
yet to be delivered.
“ I was involved as an amicus
(lawyer not directly involved who
advises the court). I think it ’s likely
that the District Court ruling will
be overturned and the protection
extended to journalists who blog and
blogging.”
Mr Miles’s speech was to a
collection of the finest legal minds in
the world at the conference.
The privacy and media law expert
gave a colourful potted history of the
recent sur veillance and privacy issues
—
from the Five Eyes sur veillance
programme, Snowdon revelations
and the Dotcom mansion raid to
interception warrants, the handing
over of phone records and movement
data of journalist Andrea Vance to a
Government inquiry, and the Whale
Oil scandal.
Mr Miles was speaking at the timely
session at the three-day conference,
Sur veillance versus privacy; the
balance between the State, the Fourth
Estate, the citizen and the rule of law.
Also speaking at the session
were International Human Rights
award-winning Zimbabwean lawyer
Beatrice Mtetwa; Chief Judge Alex
Kozinski of the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and
Mr Justice Robert Jay, QC — counsel
to the Leveson Inquiry into phone
hacking by the British press and to
the Crown in a number of torture
and national security cases.
Mr Slater, on Friday, won an
interim injunction against “unknown
defendants” publishing his private
e-mails — referring to the hacker
known as Whaledump or Rawshark
who obtained the information used
as the basis for Nicky Hager’s book
Dirty Politics.
But Justice John Fogarty said
Mediaworks TV, The New Zealand
Herald and Fairfax can run what
material they already have.
— Otago Daily Times
Blogger protection tipped
Cameron Slater
A hula hoop injury sparked a helicopter rescue at Aramoana on Saturday. St John was called to Spit
Beach, Aramoana following a call a 21-year-old woman had dislocated her knee while using a hula hoop,
a spokesman said. An ambulance was unable to reach the area, and the Otago regional rescue helicopter
was called to the scene, about 3.30pm. “ We sent the helicopter because of the location, rather than her
injury. It certainly wasn’t life-threatening,” the spokesman said. — Otago Daily Times
What goes round . . .
PICTURE: Otago Daily Times
Murdered tot ’s
mother
granted parole
Auckland
The mother of murdered toddler Nia
Glassie has been granted parole, with the
Parole Board today saying Lisa Kuka no
longer posed a undue risk to the safety of
the community.
Kuka, 41, was sentenced to nine years
in prison in 2009 for manslaughter
for failing to protect and provide the
necessaries of life for her three-year-old
daughter.
She was granted parole in February
this year but that was revoked when
problems with her accommodation
emerged.
The Parole Board said in its decision
it was satisfied on all of the information
before it that Kuka had now reached the
stage where risk was no longer undue.
She will be released on parole on
September 22.
She would be subject to some special
conditions.
The board said it was evident Kuka
would be well supported, but felt she
needed time to refocus and rework her
release proposals.
Upon her release, Kuka would begin
work, first on a voluntary basis, the board
said.
The board said it hoped this would
help prepare her for a return to the paid
workforce.
It also hoped hoped to re-engage Kuka
with her whanau once she was well
settled into the community.
Kuka started her nine-year sentence
for the manslaughter of her daughter on
February 4, 2009.
Her then-partner, Wiremu Curtis,
and his brother Michael were sentenced
to life imprisonment for the little girl’s
murder.
The Rotorua toddler died on August
3, 2007, from head injuries after being
repeatedly kicked.
She had been subjected to ongoing
abuse, usually when her mother was
out at work, including being put in a
c lothes dryer, hung on a clothesline and
spun around, used in wrestling moves,
having objects thrown at her and being
subjected to cold baths.
Kuka did not take Nia to hospital, and
was found guilty of manslaughter on the
basis she failed in her duties as a parent
protect her and provide care.
In April the board noted some
behavioural issues which appeared to
be a reaction to Kuka’s February parole
being revoked but she retained her
Release to Work. At that hearing it was
evident She Kuka would be very well
supported but the board felt she needed
to take time to refocus and rework her
release proposals.
“S he appears to have done that.
We have had a good discussion with
three (withheld) representatives. The
accommodation appears highly suitable
and supported,” the board said.
“ We have noted and discussed with
Ms Kuka the situation with Release to
Work.
“ Employment with the Release to
Work employer will not be available
upon release but we are satisfied that
(withheld) will find plenty to occupy Ms
Kuka in a constructive way.
Among Kuka’s special conditions are
that she tell Probation before entering
an intimate relationship and that she
not reside with or have stay with her
overnight any child under the age of 16
without the consent of her probation
officer.
She has also been banned from
initiating any contact with the media
including via Twitter, Facebook and
blogs and has been told she must say
“no comment ” to any request for an
inter view or information.
As part of her special conditions, Kuka
will be required to attend a hearing
in February next year so her release
conditions can be monitored. — APNZ
Wellington
If you want to experience a close
encounter with a lemur, you can now
skip a trip to Madagascar and go
straight to Wellington Zoo.
From next week the zoo is offering
a chance to personally meet its two
new residents, a pair of male black and
white ruffed lemurs.
Lucky, 17, and three-year-old
son Ankari recently travelled to
Wellington from Hamilton Zoo after
the two females at Wellington, Fi
and F lavia, moved to Melbourne Zoo
earlier this year.
“It’s great to have Lucky and Ankari
here at Wellington Zoo. They ’ve
settled in really well, and they both
have lovely, gentle natures,” Life
Sciences manager Paul Horton said.
Visitors could now see Lucky
and Ankari in their new home a
refurbished habitat with newly
planted tropical trees and foliage to
reflect their native Madagascan flora.
Zoo visitors would also have the
opportunity to meet the primates up
close in a new and intimate Close
Encounter, from next Saturday, Mr
Horton said.
“ Having Lucky and Ankari here is
a great opportunity to talk to visitors
about these beautiful and fascinating
animals, which are critically
endangered as a result of hunting and
deforestation.
Each session lasts for 30 minutes
and is $95 per person. — APNZ
New attraction at Wellington Zoo
PICTURE: Supplied
Three parties in my govt: Cunliffe
Wellington
Labour leader David Cunliffe says
there will be a maximum of three
parties in any government he leads,
and has ruled out including the
Maori Party at the Cabinet table.
Speaking to Newstalk ZB’s Mike
Hosking this morning, Mr Cunliffe
said he intended to only include
the Green Party and New Zealand
First in any government.
Asked if he was also ruling out
the Maori Party, he said he would
possibly talk to Maori Party co-
leader Te Ururoa Flavell after the
election but “I just won’t have them
in Government ”.
He did not believe Mr Flavell
would opt to side with Labour if it
was in a kingmaker position, despite
Mr Flavell saying they were open to
working with either side and would
take their lead from what Maori
voters wanted.
“People need to know before the
election that a vote for the Maori
Party is a vote for the National
Party.”
He would not rule out a lower
level arrangement with Internet
Mana, but repeated his claim that
they would not hold any ministerial
or other executive positions.
Asked whether he would stand
down if he did not pull off an
election win, Mr Cunliffe said
he would have a very long sleep
and then make a decision. He has
previously said he intended to stay
on as leader if Labour did not win
and said he believed he had made a
good fist of the job.
Mr Hosking said history showed
that very few leaders managed to
sur vive a big election loss to which
Mr Cunliffe replied, “History
doesn’t always predict the future. ”
Mr Cunliffe also said he did not
believe Labour was stuck in the
mid-20s despite a succession of
polls placing them there.
Mr Cunliffe said not all polls
had Labour in the mid-20s — but
refused to name one in which it was
doing better.
“ I don’t think (we need) a miracle,
because I don’t think we are in
the mid-20s. It is my expectation
we will turn out more voters this
season than any other.”
Mr Cunliffe conceded Labour
had a lot of ground to make up over
the next fortnight.
“I am looking to my team to deliver
on that. I’m looking to myself to
deliver a strong performance in the
next two weeks.”
Mr Cunliffe also dismissed
claims that Green co-leader Russel
Norman was shaping up to become
the chief opposition leader as
“ wishful thinking”. He said Dr
Norman knew he would not get the
finance portfolio after the election
if Labour formed a Government
with the Green Party.
Mr Cunliffe said he took NZ First
leader Winston Peters seriously and
would not rule out including Mr
Peters and some of his MPs in a
future Cabinet.
Mr Cunliffe also defended his
slip-ups over Labour’s capital gains
tax policy, saying the policy was
there on Labour’s website for all to
see.
He denied Prime Minister John
Key had caught him out on the
details, saying it was Mr Key who
had been wrong on the details when
he claimed in the Press debate that
family homes held in a trust would
be subject to the tax.
Mr Cunliffe had also said homes
inherited after the death of a parent
would be subject to the tax if not
sold within a month, but later had
to correct that. Mr Cunliffe said no
inherited homes would be subject
to the tax.
— APNZ-New Zealand Herald
David Cunliffe
Honeymoon hangover
Dunedin
A honeymooning Australian was
allegedly caught drink-driving while on
his way to pick up his sloshed bride from
a night in the cells.
The groom, 26, was processed by
Queenstown police after driving to the
station at 6.30am on Saturday.
“ His wife had been arrested earlier
(that night) for detoxification purposes,”
sergeant Steve Watt, of Queenstown,
said.
“They were over here on their
honeymoon. He being the good husband
decided to pop into the station to uplift
his wife the next morning.”
The groom allegedly had 555mg of
alcohol per litre of breath in an evidential
breath test. The legal limit is 400mg.
— Otago Daily Times
Tauranga
Police in Tauranga are seeking
help in identifying the body of
a woman found in a stream this
morning.
The body was found in the
Kopurererua Stream, near Waihi
Road in Tauranga about 6.15am.
Detective senior sergeant Greg
Turner said the woman’s body was
found next to the popular Daisy
Hardwick walkway but she was
carrying no identification.
Police had received no reports
about anyone fitting her description
as being missing, and preliminary
inquiries had shed no light on her
possible identity.
“At this stage we’ve had no
reports of anyone matching her
description being reported missing,
and despite our initial inquiries
drawing a blank, we are confident
that someone in the community
must know who she is,” Mr Turner
said.
“O ur first priority is to find out
who she is so we can make contact
with her family so if anyone thinks
they may have information that
could help us, please get in touch
with police.”
The woman was estimated to be
about 65 to 75 years of age, with a
slight build and short grey hair.
She was wearing a brown jacket,
a navy blue polar fleece top, blue
denim three-quarter pants and
black shoes.
She had a single gold band on her
left ring finger.
— APNZ-Bay of Plenty Times
Woman’s body found in estuary